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Northwestern Launches Information Technology Development Laboratory

Northwestern University has launched the Information Technology Development Laboratory (DevLab), a technology development center within the University designed to turn promising research prototypes into complete and robust applications, with the backing of DevLab founding member Motorola, Inc. DevLab will utilize Motorola expertise to support the development and deployment of software technologies for commercial use. Motorola […]

Community Colleges Turn to High-Speed Network for Distance Education

Known primarily for their use by researchers, super-fast computer networks are finding new uses in distance education at the community-college level, says Ronald L. Hamberg, vice president for instruction at Seattle Central Community College. Mr. Hamberg is in charge of distance education for the three campuses of the Seattle Community College District, which has one […]

Spectria(SM) Builds New Graduate School Portal for Pepperdine University

Spectria(SM), a leading technology consulting firm, has developed the nation’s first-ever Graduate School portal, named GraziadioNet, to create an electronic community that brings together students, faculty, staff and administrators for Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. With about 2,600 students enrolled in six campuses throughout Southern California, the Graziadio School of Business caters to […]

New Cal-Facts Evaluations Available Online

Cal-FACTS, the student-run evaluation of classes and professors, has been relaunched in a new online format after having been plagued with major inaccuracies and other crippling problems last year.

Michigan Virtual University Provides Technology Training For 4,500 Michigan Librarians and Library Staff

Michigan Virtual University’s Corporate Learning Services group is working with the Library of Michigan to revolutionize technology training in Michigan’s public libraries this fall. With funds from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, the Library of Michigan will make available free technology training for the state’s 4,500 public librarians and library staffers regardless of […]

Follett and Campus Pipeline Plan to Integrate the Bookstore With the Digital Campus — Largest Operator of College Bookstores To Join Campus Pipeline’s Platform Partners Program

Follett, the largest operator of campus bookstores, plans to become a lead member of Campus Pipeline’s Platform Partners program, a group of leading higher education software and services vendors that will develop applications based on the Campus Pipeline Web Platform’s open integration and presentation capabilities. Platform Partners, comprised of vendors from key campus categories, will […]

Blackboard and Campus Pipeline to Collaborate for Benefit of Mutual Customers

Blackboard Inc. announced today that Campus Pipeline has joined the Blackboard Building Blocks program to fully enable the Campus Pipeline web platform to work and integrate with Blackboard’s e-Education platform, Blackboard 5. The alliance unites two of the e-education industry’s leading products to allow greater choice, flexibility and convenience to higher education institutions. Through Blackboard’s […]

Columbia University’s Fathom Seeks New Users Among Readers of ‘The New Yorker’

It takes an ambitious kind of company to aspire to advertise inside the back cover of The New Yorker. There you’ll find the likes of Rolex and Acura, the pop icons featured in Absolut Vodka spots, and … Fathom?

Kansas State University: K-State part of UAW-Ford program to provide distance education to UAW workers seeking college degrees

Kansas State University is one of 17 universities and colleges nationwide involved in a new program providing United Auto Workers members the opportunity to take college courses through the latest distance education technologies. The UAW-Ford University Online program allows UAW workers to work full time while earning their college degrees or to just take a […]

HRDC: Government of Canada Funds a Distance Education Project From Athabasca University

The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of the Honourable Jane Stewart, Minister of Human Resources Development Canada, today announced funding of $199,000, through the Office of Learning Technologies, for a project presented by Athabasca University entitled Remote Access to Instrumental Analysis for Distance Education in Science. Under […]